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Our non-profit is planning an educational health fair around health disease to increase the awareness that heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the U.S. We would like to kick-off the health fair with a community 5k and family fun run/walk. How do we plan a community run? Thank you!

I am looking for information on dealing with roadblocks to change. In my situation the teachers at a school and the administrators have different views on how to change. The admin listen to our (teachers) input and take partial steps toward doing these things but often it is incomplete, does not last or we just talk about it and the admin does not do their part. I think that one of the main problems is in communication because even when the admin do things they don't tell us. Any suggestions?

I'm doing a search project on Healthy Community, and now I'm in the writing part of my project oh! i'm second year student in social services worker program... in this course i need all the help i can get..thank you

Hello! I work for a safety-net community health clinic in Berkeley, CA. We are trying to more fully engage our highly diverse community of patients in how we plan and deliver our health services. In an effort to make our care more patient-centered, more culturally appropriate, and more aligned with our patients' real life experiences, we established a patient advisory council at one of our Oakland clinics, with promising results. We are hoping to build on this success, yet keep things sustainable for our struggling non-profit, by bringing patients into the patient satisfaction process. We're hoping to train patient advisory council members to develop and conduct patient surveys, one-on-one interviews and facilitate focus groups to address Quality Improvement initiatives. I am wondering if you know of any other community health clinics who have tried to do this. I am also wondering if you are aware of any training programs or literature that we could use to help orient and train our patient advisers so that they feel more confidant and can fully participate in this process. Thank you for your help!

Dear Advisor, I am a High School teacher from Singapore. I am interested in carrying out a research project to evaluate the effectiveness of overseas community involvement projects in developing youth to be global and active citizens. As I am new to the field of research methodoly, I am unsure about how I can carry out my research as well as collect data to evaluate the effectiveness of this programme. http://www.hci.sg/affectiveEdu/programmes/OE%20Web/website.htm Here is the link to some of the programmes run by my school under outdoor education. I hope you can advise me on this. Thanks. Have a nice day! Regards Pei Chin

I am a student taking my "Family Supports Certificate" through Distance Education and am on my last class and love this website and wanted to ask some advice. I am creating a program for the Military Family resource centre where I volunteer which will focus on "Empowering Parents" to "take back parenting", learn to not be afraid to say no to your child, and to set boundaries for your child and yourself in relation to the military lifestyle. I am hitting a wall when it comes to creating my goals and objectives. I always have a hard time simplyfying this stage. Any help or guidance with this

Hi there, I am a nursing student who has 13 weeks of practicum at a community drop in centre. With this time I have been asked to develop and deliver a diabetes education prevention program to some of the street involved, low income, new immigrants and refugee clients there. I am finding this very challenging because i feel like i know what they want me to do- design a couple of workshops about increasing fibre intake and decreasing sugar or something, so that I get an A in the course. It would be easy enough to produce a bunch of pamphlets, but there is not sustainability or capacity building... and that it would be nearly impossible to design let alone deliver, and evaluate any kind of meaningful, sustainable program in the next 13 weeks. i guess i am just venting a bit, but i don`t want to play into this kind of `pat yourself on the back for making educational materials that no one will read, but at least we can grade you on them` game. However, it feels like a very daunting task to begin... currently i am searching Toronto for experienced diabetes nurses who have worked with this type of population i am wondering how to engage the population in program design, etc., like participatory action projects... do you have any suggestions? thanks so much

My name is Molly and I work with Susan G Komen for the Cure in community health. We have the opportunity to provide training to some partners in Jordan regarding asset mapping, locating assets, finding programs and services, evaluating those services and partnering with organizations. Do you know of any vital analysis models or tools used to accomplish this? In our asset mapping, we discuss GIS mapping, databases, and some other technology to look at statistics and online directories but realize this may not be an option in Jordan. Do you have any tools you have used in working with other countries?

I'm 29 year old US Citizen, and a stay at home aunt living in Columbia, Maryland. I was born in the Caribbean and have a strong longing in my heart to return and help in my community. I have no clue how to get started. Can you help?

Hello! My state (Texas) is in the process of developing a community resource guide for pediatricians related to obesity. The hope is that the guide will provide a roadmap for community physicians to connect to local community agencies to build relationships around nutrition, exercise, and well-being. Does such a "road map" already exist for building obesity relationships, or for other disease processes? Thanks, Carl Tapia, MD CATCH Texas Co-Facilitator

Can you direct me to resources involving undergraduates doing international service learning projects and curriculum that will support such projects? I am planning for my students to do a collaborative service learning project with the deaf community in Costa Rica which may involve setting up computer camps for deaf youth.

Hello, I am looking for a tool (data collection instrument) that I can use to collect evaluation information that has been submitted by grantees. What I want to be able to do at the end is show who these people are, what they said they would do, did they do it, and how they did it. Thanks!

What is the best way to come up with the state associated fees for obtaining 501c3 status?

I was directed to your site by a google search looking for the "Ugly Orange Case," which is used as an exercise to build collaboration. The pdf is titled "Commmunity Involvement and Collaboration - 6.5 Understanding Collaboration" it references handout 6.5.A Ugly Orange Case that I am unable to locate. No date is provided on the document. Can you help? Best regards, Dr. Barbara Durant

Greetings; I am looking for substance abuse recovery support network models. I am trying to find out who is using what models. So often youth are referred to 12 steps with minimal guidance. If you know of other models that would be very helpful. Thanks David J.